CINIE 2020

Up until today, the phyisical classroom remains as the main teaching space in university levels, especially in those subjects where practical contents are taught. The face-to-face teacher student contaact is still considered essential in the teaching-learning process and yet, other types of teaching methods such as e-learning show certain complementary advantages which may be missing in traditional education. The methodology applied in the research, Blended learning, shows how the teaching realm can be expanded by combining the physical classroom with a virtual classroom, thus adding new teaching tools.

Based on the above, this study’s main objective is to analyse the advantages and difficulties to be found in the specific application of BLended learning to the design-studio teaching model. In agreement with the students, Facebook was chosen as the online platform due to its immediacy and accessibility, thus forming a closed FB group to serve as a virtual classroom. At the end of the course, both teachers and students participating in the study rated their experience through a structured questionnaire.